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Article #1208Re: ACE'92 show: Report
From: Ted Brown
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:49
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:49
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>In any case, to answer your question, the Gemulator board that contains >the TOS Roms actually has two empty sockets for the Mac ROMs. Well that relieves *some* of my questions. How does it read Mac Disks? It would be enough if it could read 1.44 disks (that is as soon as Dave adds the capability), but I don't see how you can make a typical IBM read Macintosh disks without some extra hardware device (of course I am not a hardware-techy type so I could be wrong). It just seems to me that for a $300 program on top of a $2500 machine which you need to buy some TOS chips to add, just to emulate a $350 computer is just a little out of whack. Some might want it to run Spectre but that still gets out of line: $300 + $500 (Spectre w/Roms) + TOS comes to $800 plus to emulate a mac (but probably faster than a plus speeds). I guess some might pay any price to be able to run mac apps on an IBM, but we are close range of just go out an buy a real mac so you get Sys7, all the proper ports and such, the possiblility of color, et all. Well, I guess someone will buy it just to be able to do that. But hey, I guess it's a good add for an ST. It takes a 50Mhz 486 just to be an ST (without MIDI). Hey, how is Gemulator on ST sound anyway? Ted Brown (still trying to get "it")
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!woozie.cis.ohio-state.edu!tbrown From: tbrown@woozie.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ted Brown) Subject: Re: ACE'92 show: Report Message-ID: <1992Apr7.194955.26378@cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews ) Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science References: <1992Apr7.045538.1530@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <12402@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 19:49:55 GMT Lines: 24